Word Meanings - SUBORDER - Book Publishers vocabulary database

A division of an order; a group of genera of a little lower rank than an order and of greater importance than a tribe or family; as, cichoraceous plants form a suborder of Compositæ.

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• COMPOSITOUS
  Belonging to the Compositæ; composite. Darwin.
• CICHORACEOUS
  Belonging to, or resembling, a suborder of composite plants of which the chicory is the type.
• GENERABILITY
  Capability of being generated. Johnstone.
• GENERALIZED
  Comprising structural characters which are separated in more specialized forms; synthetic; as, a generalized type.
• GENERALIZABLE
  Capable of being generalized, or reduced to a general form of statement, or brought under a general rule. Extreme cases are . . . not generalizable. Coleridge
• DIVISIONARY
  Divisional.
• LOWERMOST
  Lowest.
• GENERA
  See GENUS
• FAMILY
  A groupe of organisms, either animal or vegetable, related by certain points of resemblance in structure or development, more comprehensive than a genus, because it is usually based on fewer or less pronounced points of likeness. In zoölogy
• DIVISIONALLY
  So as to be divisional.
• GENERANT
  Generative; producing; esp. ,
• LITTLENESS
  The state or quality of being little; as, littleness of size, thought, duration, power, etc. Syn. -- Smallness; slightness; inconsiderableness; narrowness; insignificance; meanness; penuriousness.
• GENERALTY
  Generality. Sir M. Hale.
• TRIBE
  A number of species or genera having certain structural characteristics in common; as, a tribe of plants; a tribe of animals. Note: By many recent naturalists, tribe has been used for a group of animals or plants intermediate between order
• LOWERY
  Cloudy; gloomy; lowering; as, a lowery sky; lowery weather.
• COMPOSITE
  Belonging to a certain order which is composed of the Ionic order grafted upon the Corinthian. It is called also the Roman or the Italic order, and is one of the five orders recognized by the Italian writers of the sixteenth century. See Capital.
• ORDERLY
  1. Conformed to order; in order; regular; as, an orderly course or plan. Milton. 2. Observant of order, authority, or rule; hence, obedient; quiet; peaceable; not unruly; as, orderly children; an orderly community. 3. Performed in good
• GENERALITY
  1. The state of being general; the quality of including species or particulars. Hooker. 2. That which is general; that which lacks specificalness, practicalness, or application; a general or vague statement or phrase. Let us descend from
• LITTLE-EASE
  An old slang name for the pillory, stocks, etc., of a prison. Latimer.
• LOWER
  Compar. of Low, a.
• WILLOWER
  A willow. See Willow, n., 2.
• WINDFLOWER
  The anemone; -- so called because formerly supposed to open only when the wind was blowing. See Anemone.
• MAJOR GENERAL
  . An officer of the army holding a rank next above that of brigadier general and next below that of lieutenant general, and who usually commands a division or a corps.
• FLOWERY-KIRTLED
  Dressed with garlands of flowers. Milton.
• CEPHALOTRIBE
  An obstetrical instrument for performing cephalotripsy.
• CAULIFLOWER
  An annual variety of Brassica oleracea, or cabbage of which the cluster of young flower stalks and buds is eaten as a vegetable. 2. The edible head or "curd" of a caulifower plant. (more info) caulis, and by E. flower; F. chou cabbage is fr. L.
• UNREGENERACY
  The quality or state of being unregenerate. Glanvill.
• FLOWER-DE-LUCE
  A genus of perennial herbs with swordlike leaves and large three-petaled flowers often of very gay colors, but probably white in the plant first chosen for the royal French emblem. Note: There are nearly one hundred species, natives of the north
• IMBORDER
  To furnish or inclose with a border; to form a border of. Milton.
• WALLOWER
  A lantern wheel; a trundle. (more info) 1. One who, or that which, wallows.
• RETROGENERATIVE
  Begetting young by retrocopulation.
• FLOWERY
  1. Full of flowers; abounding with blossoms. 2. Highly embellished with figurative language; florid; as, a flowery style. Milton. The flowery kingdom, China.
• MISDIVISION
  Wrong division.
• FLOWERLESSNESS
  State of being without flowers.
• MAYFLOWER
  In England, the hawthorn; in New England, the trailing arbutus ; also, the blossom of these plants.
• MISORDER
  To order ill; to manage erroneously; to conduct badly. Shak.